Responding to the needs
of major customers who regularly move growing volumes of data between HP NonStop
systems and mainframes in shrinking time windows, ETI-NET has developed the EZX-Gateway.
This product embodies the best features of ETI-NET’s BCOM® and
BackBox® products. The EZX Gateway provides Fibre channel-based, zero
latency file transfer between HP NonStop and IBM mainframes without the need for
expensive network bandwidth. Extending NonStop fundamentals of fault-tolerance
and linear expandability, EZX Gateway ensures that data is reliably transferred
across systems with minimum complexity and system overhead within the available
time window, no matter how massive the data quantities involved.
By exploiting HP
StorageWorks XPTM
Disk Arrays as shared repositories for the data to be exchanged, EZX Gateway is
able to construct an end-to-end transfer environment that affords new levels of
performance while continuing the reliable operation and ease-of-use
traditionally associated with all ETI-NET products.
Issues
Solved by the EZX-Gateway:
Ever growing
volumes of data to move to and from mainframes each night or hour.
Ever shrinking
time windows to accomplish the transfers.
No path for
linear growth as data volumes grow over time.
No tolerance
for failures in transfers that would result in violation of time windows.
Overloaded
corporate LANs
High TCP/IP
processing overhead in NonStop and mainframe systems.
Complex
management of transfer process on disparate systems.